Tokyo, Nov. 2.
Sub-Lieutenant Risaburo Inouye, a member of the English' News Depar ment of the Domei News Agency at Tokyo, was killed in action on the Central China front, a brief notice received here yesterday from the command of the Sonoda unit retooled.
Called to the colours last July, Mr. Inouye went to the front and served with the Japanese army in Central China as an infantry sub-lieutenant.
Sub-Lieutenant Inouye was born in Nakatsu, Oita prefecture, Kyushu, and received his higher education at the Seinan Gakuin, missionary college in Fukuoka city. After his graduation in 1927, we went to the United States where he studied at Depaw College, Indiana. Later, he went to the University of Indiana where he received a Master of Arts degree.
On his return from America, he entered the field of journalism. He first joined the staff of the "Japan Times" in 1933 and in October 1936 entered the English Department of the Domei News Agency.
Sub-Lieutenant Inouye is survived by his widow and one daughter.—
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